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Project Darkhorse
"Darkhorse" is the name given to the 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, the most highly decorated regiment in the Marines. These young men are currently serving in Afghanistan. There are five companies in this battalion and this represents a large number of Marines who would appreciate any love we can send their way.
Weapons Company received several care packages in December and then HAE moved on to Lima Company. When all have finished up mailing their boxes, Lima Company will be put to "bed." The next, and probably last company, we will do is Kilo Company. There are about 170 Marines in this group, all males. The mailing date for Kilo Company is February 7. This should give us enough time to get sufficient pillowcases ready for mailing. As with every project, we need to have sufficient pillowcases for each Marine in the company to receive one.
For OPSEC reasons, I would appreciate your letting me know via PM (make me a friend on N4M if I am not already one) the number of pillowcases you will send in your box.
Sue sent me this "Semper Fi" poster. I watched the video about the Marines in Bethesda. The attitude of the Marines who have suffered terrible injuries is absolutely amazing. Here is a link with a video of Kilo Company.
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Permalink Reply by DC - G'mother of My Fav Sailor on
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Lyn, I do agree with you and will follow up on this. We could also decide that we will adopt a Marine battalion for Christmas. This would be probably five companies and roughly 1000 ± Marines. We could begin making both pillowcases and scarves now and stock piling them. I would think that this might be doable.
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Permalink Reply by Jackie D on
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I love the idea of adopting a battalion for Christmas. Right now I've not been able to do any sewing since our arrival in AZ.... maybe after another month or so I'll be able to do a few once things slow down here. Being ahead of the game is def. an advantage when it comes to such large numbers. After the Lincoln we all know the work it was to finish that up and we started in the Spring.
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Tamara,
What beautiful pillowcases they are! I just love all the nature pictures. I would think it would be soothing to lay my head on one of them.
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Permalink Reply by Sue-Pillowcase lady on
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beautiful Tamara and that is good thinking Lyn.
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Permalink Reply by Birdie on
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30 pc's shipped to Kilo Company today.
If you would like to see the pictures, you can check them out in my FB page at Adopt-A-Pillowcase for a Soldier and go into the "Shipped Pillowcases" photo album.
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Prayer works!
Only 27 of the 30 pc's I shipped had been sponsored. I shipped them all anyways, knowing that God would provide. When I got home tonight, there was a check in the mail to cover the sponsorship of the last 3 pc's.
God't timing is perfect. :)
Now on to the next project....
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Just back from post office. Mailed my 25 pcs to this unit. Will try to attach or send a photo later. Running off to work at the USO now.
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Birdie, would you post those photos in here too? I like to keep the photos with the threads so they can be found easily again.
glad to hear about your pc sponsorships. I ddn't realize that you work at the USO Cheryl.
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Sue, I just realized that I already posted the pics on page 10 & 11 of this thread.
I have about 50 more that I will put on a CD for you. Those pc's haven't shipped yet.
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thanks Birdie.
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